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Sunday, August 22, 2004
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Roosevelt has something for everyone
August 22, 2004 in Outdoors A series devloted to power boating on lakes of the Inland Northwest.
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Old soldiers, new Army
August 22, 2004 in City on Page A1 FORT BLISS, Texas – A tall, lean man holding a weathered wooden staff strode the desert under forks of dry lightning as Friday night turned into Saturday. He is somewhat …
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Candidates’ differences often subtle
August 22, 2004 in City on Page A1 At the end of a recent debate, the three Republican candidates for the 5th Congressional District found themselves at a loss. They’d just been asked what, besides their experience, distinguished …
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Militants keep hold of shrine
August 22, 2004 in Nation/World on Page A1 NAJAF, Iraq – Militants loyal to radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr kept their hold on a revered shrine, and clashes flared in Najaf on Saturday, raising fears that a resolution …
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Man retraces explorers’ botanical trail
August 22, 2004 in City on Page A1 Meriwether Lewis and William Clark did more than explore the West, fight grizzlies and intimidate the locals. Their presidential marching orders also included collecting plants from the plains and forests …
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Neighborhoods feel pinch of growing pains
August 22, 2004 in City on Page A1 The sun seemed to bake the flies right out of the soil and on 34th Avenue on the South Hill, just inside the Spokane city limits, the heat seemed to …
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Unofficial help a huge boost after Charley
August 22, 2004 in Nation/World on Page A2 PUNTA GORDA, Fla. – With a freezer full of food about to spoil, there was only one thing for Nestor Tsimpedes to do after Hurricane Charley made a shambles of …
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Lottery numbers
August 22, 2004 in City on Page A2 Saturday’s Washington Daily Game: 8-3-5. Sat. Lotto: 1-3-15-26-38-39. No winner. Next jackpot $5.4 million.
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3 arrested by Swiss linked to al Qaeda
August 22, 2004 in Nation/World on Page A3 GENEVA – Swiss investigators have established a link between at least three Arabs detained in a nationwide anti-terror sweep and a purported key al Qaeda member, a newspaper reported Saturday. …
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Adviser tied to anti-Kerry ads let go by Bush camp
August 22, 2004 in Nation/World on Page A3 CRAWFORD, Texas – The Bush campaign said late Saturday that it dismissed an adviser on veterans issues after learning that he is part of an independent group that has been …
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Briefly
August 22, 2004 in Nation/World on Page A4 Wiring at pot operation caused fatal blaze Philadelphia A house blaze that killed two firefighters started in a tangle of wires and lamps that were installed to grow marijuana in …
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Felines’ venerable role at museum dates to 1764
August 22, 2004 in Nation/World on Page A4 ST. PETERSBURG, Russia – Vaska may not know much about art, but he knows what he likes. Catching mice.
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Bush touts his reforms in schools
August 22, 2004 in Nation/World on Page A5 CRAWFORD, Texas – In a back-to-school message, President Bush says that while many public schools aren’t making the grade, he should get high marks from voters for the No Child …
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Edwards challenges Bush on attack ads
August 22, 2004 in Nation/World on Page A5 ROANOKE, Va. – John Edwards demanded Saturday that President Bush call for television ads attacking John F. Kerry’s military service in Vietnam to be pulled because they are lies funded …
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Bush campaign adviser resigns over old allegation
August 22, 2004 in Nation/World on Page A5 WASHINGTON – Deal Hudson, publisher of the conservative Catholic magazine Crisis and a close ally of the Bush White House, has resigned as an adviser to the Bush-Cheney re-election campaign …
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Life photographer Mydans, chronicler of wars, dies at 97
August 22, 2004 in Nation/World on Page A8 Carl Mydans, the much-honored Life magazine war photographer who took one of the most celebrated pictures of World War II – a resolute Gen. Douglas MacArthur wading onto Luzon Island …
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In passing
August 22, 2004 in Nation/World on Page A8 Hiram L. Fong, 97, pioneering senator Honolulu Hiram L. Fong, a son of immigrants who overcame poverty to become a millionaire businessman and the first Asian American elected to the …
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Prolific film composer Elmer Bernstein dies
August 22, 2004 in Nation/World on Page A8 LOS ANGELES – Film composer Elmer Bernstein, who created a brawny, big-sky theme for “The Magnificent Seven,” nerve-jangling jazz for “The Man With The Golden Arm” and heart-rending grace notes …
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Ancient districts discovered in Peru
August 22, 2004 in Nation/World on Page A10 LIMA, Peru – An American-led expedition discovered five new districts in what its leader described as an ancient jungle metropolis on the slopes of the Peruvian Andes. The complex, which …
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What’s your sign? Your illness?
August 22, 2004 in Nation/World on Page A10 Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20): Governed by Neptune and symbolized by the fish. Compassionate, introspective, artistic. Often dreamy and impractical. May be prone to schizophrenia, epilepsy or bipolar disorder. It may …
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Soccer team’s victory brings euphoria to Iraqis
August 22, 2004 in Nation/World on Page A11 BAGHDAD, Iraq – A stream of red tracer bullets cut through the night sky amid a hail of celebratory gunfire as Iraqis, exhausted from war and unending violence, celebrated their …
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China announces crackdown on electronic porn
August 22, 2004 in Nation/World on Page A12 BEIJING – From the walled compounds where China’s Communist leadership runs the country has come the word: no more porn. No more nudity on the Internet. No more late-night erotica …
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Hard work helps overcome challenges
August 22, 2004 in Idaho on Page B1 PEGGY CAPES WAS CERTAIN she could accomplish just about anything with hard work. The brace on her left leg from her foot to her lower thigh was invisible to her. …
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Car chase ends in Spokane, perhaps finally
August 22, 2004 in City on Page B1 Besides Daisy Duke’s delectable derriere and Boss Hogg’s dimwittedness, “The Dukes of Hazzard” provided fans of TV’s cornpone classic with another sure thing. Somewhere in each episode that souped-up orange …
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